Phonograph



ueurso STATES MIORRIS J. STONE, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

PHONOGRAPH.

Application filed September 29, 1920.

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, Morris J. STONE, a citizen of the United States, residing at the city of St. Louis, State of Missouri, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Phonographs, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, forming a part thereof.

This invention relates generally to phonographs and, more particularly, to a certain new and useful lighting-system therefor.

The principal object of my present invention is to equip the interior of the phonograph-cabinet with a plurality of conveniently arranged electric-lamps and to pro; vide connections for readily lighting the lamps, whereby the phonograph can be located and easily operated in a comparatively dark corner or portion of a room, and when the lights within the cabinet are turned on it is possible to readily locate any desired record, to change the needle that is carried by the reproducer, and to also adjust the reproducer upon the record that is mounted upon the revolving disk or turntable of the phonograph.

A further object of my invention is to provide the phonograph-cabinet with a drawer for containing record-disks and to equip the outlet-end of the sound-conducting horn with a swingable deflector, which deflector is adapted to perform the function when closed of an ornamental panel for the phonograph and when open to deflect into the drawer rays of a lamp located within the sound-conducting horn for lighting the interior ofthe drawer and thereby facilitating the selection of a record therefrom.

With the above and other objects in view, my invention resides in certain novel features of form, construction, arrangement, and combination of parts hereinafter described and afterward pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawing,

Figure 1 is a front elevational view of a phonograph-cabinet embodying my invention, with the parts thereof shifted into open positions so as to expose the electriclamps that are located within the cabinet- Fig. 2 is a front elevational View bf the cabinet with the parts thereof in closed positions;

Fig. 3 is a side elevational view of the Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 18, 1921.

Serial No. 413,558.

cabinet with one of the record-drawers thereof partially opened and with the reflectingpanel shifted into position to reflect the rays from an electric-lamp arranged within the sound-conducting horn downwardly into the partially open drawer; and

Fig. 4 is a detail elevational view, showing the means employed for mounting the swinging deflector on the frame of the cabinet.

Referring now more in detail to the said drawing, which illustrates a practical enbodiment of my invention, 10 designates the cabinet-body, which is of the usual rectangular construction and supported at its four corners by suitable legs or posts 11. The cabinet-body 10 is surmounted by a cap or cover 12, which may be swung upwardly into open position, as illustrated in Fig. 1, and which cap or cover normally incloses the rotatable plate or turntable 13 that carries the record that is to be played. The record is engaged in the usual manner by the needle carried by the reproducer 14.

The upper portion of the front wall of the cabinet-body 10 is provided with a substantially rectangular ornamental panel 15, and formed therein is an oval opening 16 which coincides with the forward or outlet-end of the sound-conveying horn or chamber of the phonograph. Arranged for swinging movement within the opening 16, and supported at its ends by horizontally disposed pins 17 that engage in bearings 18,

1s an ornamental correspondingly oval de-.

fiector 19. preferably of leaded glass, and the rear side of which is preferably finished to rovide a light-reflecting surface 20.

arranged for sliding movement through the front wall of the cabinet, and positioned immediately beneath the sound-conducting horn or chamber, is a drawer 21 that is adapted to contain phonograph-records; and the space within the cabinet beneath the drawer 21, is divided by suitably arranged partitions 22 into a series of compartments 23 that are adapted to receive record-hold ing books or the like.

Located in the upper portion of the space or chamber that is divided into the bookholding compartments 23, is a small electric lamp 241, and a similar lamp 25 is positioned in a socket that is located in the central portion of the chamber of the ound-conducting horn immediately above the drawer 21. and to the rear of the swingable panel 19.

lamps Located on the top of the cabinet-body and beneath the hinged cover 12, and adj acent the plate or turntable 13, is an additional socket adapted to receive a similar lamp 26; and connecting the lamps 24, 25, and 26 are suitable conductors 27, the latter being carried through the side of the cabinet and connected to an extension-cord 28, the end of which carries a suitable plug 29 adapted for connection with a suitable source of electric current. Obviously, when this plug is inserted in the socket of an ordinary lighting system, all three of the 2%, 25, and 26 will be lighted, and as a result the interior of the cabinet will be sulticiently illuminated to permit the. selection and removal of the desired records and the adjustment of the reproducing needle upon the record that is to be played. If desired, a suitable switch (not shown) can be locatedin the extension-cord 28, or in the bracket which connects'the lamps, and by 1 tion of the record desired.

A phonograph lighting system of my improved construction is comparatively simple,

"can be easily installed, and greatly facilitates in 'an otherwise dark location the handling of the phonograph records and the adjustment of the reproducer needle.

7 I am aware that changes in the form, construction, arrangement, and combination of the several parts of the phonograph andv lighting system may be made and substituted for those herein shown anddescribed without departing from the nature and principle of my invention as limited by the claims.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. The combination with a phonographcabinet, including its sound-conveying chamber, the cabinet having a compartment adapted to contain records, of an electric lamp positioned upon the cabinet adjacent the compartment, and a panel arranged within the sound-conveying chamber and adjacent the lamp to reflect light from the lamp into the compartment. l

2. The combination with a phonographcabinet, including its sound-conveying chamber, the cabinet having a compartment adapted to contain records, of an electric lamp positioned upon the cabinet adjacent the compartment, and a panel arranged for movement within the sound-conveying chamber and adjacent the lamp to modulate emitted sound and to reflect light from the lamp into the compartment.

3. The combination with a phonographcabinet, including its sound-conveying chamber, the cabinet having a record containing drawer below said chamber, of an electric lamp positioned upon thecabinet and above the drawer, and a panel arranged for swinging movement within the sound-conveying chamber and adjacent the lamp'to modulate emitted sound and to reflect light from the lamp into the compartment.

4. The combination with a phonographcabinet having a drawer, of a sound-modu lating panelarranged in the wall of the cabinet above the drawer, the rear face of the panel being adapted to providea lightreflectingsurface,v and an electricfjlamp located between the drawer and panel.

In testimony whereof, I have signed my name to this specification. v

MORRIS J; STONE. 

